Dr. Donahue responds to your concerns and anticipates your needs for optimal health and longevity. Whether an executive of a corporation or the current executive of your home, Dr. Donahue’s annual comprehensive exam allows as much time as needed to listen and learn clues, to integrate your unique, sometimes complex, biological and psychological systems with your health goals, in order to create a medical and lifestyle action plan. Dr. Donahue helps you manage incremental change towards health, knowing that if were easy, or obvious, you would likely have already done it.

Aligning patients with their goals for 27 years, Dr. Donahue looks for the functional root cause – of complex illnesses while simultaneously optimizing health to reduce your associated family risk factors for disease, often with cutting edge natural approaches.

Dr. Donahue is a Harvard affiliated physician uniquely working with all the major Harvard hospitals including being an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and having privileges at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He is linked into the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Physician Portal for real-time ordering of tests. As an independent member of Partners Health System Dr. Donahue charts in the BWH and MGH electronic medical record system with bi-directional secure access to specialist notes, past medical records, labs, imaging etc.

Your Personal Story: A detailed history is underutilized in today’s health care system. Senior physicians know that the secret to uncovering the early diagnosis of rare diseases is a highly detailed, give and take, conversational history to tease out sequences and patterns of symptoms. While Dr. Donahue tests via advancing edge of genetic analysis, a detailed Family History is often still the best “genetic test” to decipher risk.

Your Physical: Having taught Harvard medical students the art of physical examination, Dr Donahue’s detailed exam is targeted to screen for common and rare diseases. Having practiced obstetrics, well woman exams are respectfully done by Dr. Donahue or, if preferred, by gynecologist.

Your Personal Health Plan: While some people are able to make sudden profound change, most of us sustain change through incremental action steps. Dr. Donahue uses follow-up visits and phone consultations to fine tune change and strategize setbacks to stay on track. He can works with cognitive behavioral therapists, nutritional coaches, exercise coaches, and Executive Coaches when needed.